slave states are:
* Texas * Louisiana * Arkansas * Mississippi * Alabama * Florida * Georgia * South Carolina * North Carolina
* Virginia * Tennessee * union states are:
* Oregon
* California
* Kansas
* Michigan * Wisconsin * Indiana * Illinois * Ohio * West Virginia * New York * Pennsylvania * Maine
* Vermont * New Jersey * Massachusetts * Minnesota * Connecticut * Iowa
Free States= allow the people in that area to live the way they want; no slavery was allowed there.
Slave States= were the TOTAL opposite of the free states. Here there was nothing but slavery. People were tortured, threatened, or even shot or hanged from their rightful owners. It gets worse. There was a law passed called fugitive Slave Law." Which was where when slaves run away they had to be returned to their rightful owners. These poor people had no freedom at all!
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West Virginia broke apart from the slave state Virginia and joined the Union, but for the most part all slave states were Confederate.
The Union (Northern states)
The Missouri Compromise
Delaware, Maryland, Missouri, and Kentucky.
The Missouri Compromise of 1820 was important because it played a significant role in the relationship between the North and the South. It resulted in the admission of Missouri to the Union as a slave state.
California became a free state in 1850, ending the balance of free states and slave states. However, the slave states got a tougher fugitive slave law as a result of California's admission to the Union as a free state.
The northern states did want Missouri admitted to the union as a slave state so as to balance the free slave trade.
None of the Border States seceded even though they were slave states.
It upset the balance of slave & free states,
The political balance between slave and free states as of 1819 was disturbed by the territory of Missouri's petition for admission to the Union as a slave state.
The Union in the American Civil War represented the free states (meaning slave-free states) plus five border slave states in the north of America. The Confederate States of America (the Confederacy) comprised the eleven southern slave states which had seceded from the United States of America.
There was and even amount of slave and slave-free states
It was Union Civil War days. All Northern states were free.
yes it did
The Potomac divided the Confederacy from the Union, although Maryland was a slave-state, and so was DC at the beginning. The Ohio River divided the slave-states from free soil.
Slave states. Some border states made attempts to secede, but for one reason or another, failed to do so.
Georgia was a slave state and part of the Confederate States of America.